ATI Radeon HD 4670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4670 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 4670 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (47W vs 59W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4670
+416%
0.48 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
Radeon R700
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.00GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
6.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
480.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
59W
TDP
47W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV730
GPU Name
G84
RV730 XT
(215-0719047)
GPU Variant
G84-303-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.514 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
146 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
